the nazis had ties the the fredster, not the other way around. he says a lot of stuff about self-empowerment and how the powerful and dynamic individuals among us have to rise up and ignore “common” morality if real progress to occur.

the nazis took that as meaning that they are allowed to do whatever they want because they are so great.

so great.

(nietzshe says some less than admirable things about jewish people, but would have a)represented the very liberal end of the discussion considering his time period and b) never, ever have agreed that killing a race was the answer.)

Jason

One of the major reasons Nietzsche was linked to Nazism is because Nietsche’s… sister (I think) actively worked to provide that connection. She was deeply anti-semetic and gave that kind of spin on his writings. The Nazi’s then selectively used Nietzsche to bloster their claims to power.

Nietzsche isn’t so much against Jews (as people), but against Christian morality, which is actually refirbished Jewish morality. He sees the Socratic ethical philosophical project (the denial of Aeschalus’ unfliching tragic insights into existence) and the Jewish moral project (turning nobility on it’s head / good as represented by inferior ‘virtues’) as two major forces of decadence.

And as for women, I don’t know what to say. There are some biographers who suggest Nietzsche was homosexual, so what could he know about women anyway?